Know The Grass

A year after the great Sudden Light (LIFF34), Sophie Littman returns with another equally disquieting story. 15-year-old Mattie is visited by strange premonitions and during a trip out of town, Mattie senses her visions could be warning that her brother’s life is in danger. A precise, atmospheric modern folk tale. From first-time filmmaker Cal Murphy Barton, this documentary tells the surprisingly charming story of a rubber engineer who turns junked scrubber-driers into sex machines, on the site of an abandoned coal mine. An unexpected insight into the remaking of place by combining craft and fetish in a post-industrial landscape.